Indoor positioning system

wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group aimed at novel applications

building designed for car parking and where there are a number of floors or levels on which parking takes place

thumb|Smartphone detecting an iBeacon transmitter iBeacon is a protocol developed by Apple and introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in 2013. Various vendors have since made iBeacon-compatible hardware transmitters – typically called beacons – a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic devices. The technology enables smartphones, tablets and other devices to perform actions when in proximity to an iBeacon.

network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects inside a building

hardware transmitter

creation and use of maps by robots